EMC to Sell QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters for CLARiiON Storage Systems; QLA2200 Series Installed in NetWare Environments

Business Wire, March 29, 2000

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ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2000

QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), the unit market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters, today announced the company's QLA2200 Series Fibre Channel host bus adapters will be sold by EMC for use with its award-winning CLARiiON storage systems running in NetWare environments.

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world's technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise storage systems, software and services. Performance Computing recently awarded the 1999 Outstanding Product of the Year to the EMC CLARiiON FC5700 storage array. CLARiiON systems manage and protect information from all major open systems platforms across distributed and departmental environments of large enterprises and rapidly growing, emerging companies.

"Our customers rely on EMC CLARiiON storage systems for critical data access," said Mark J. Vargo, EMC Vice President of Product Marketing. "CLARiiON systems combined with QLogic's QLA2200 series Fibre Channel host bus adapters provide the reliability and performance that are so crucial to building an EMC E-Infostructure to support their most important business applications."

"We're pleased to continue our relationship with EMC, a leader in intelligent enterprise storage solutions," said Mark Edwards, vice president and general manager of QLogic's Computer Systems Group. "QLogic and EMC have worked closely to ensure that the CLARiiON storage systems deliver quick, efficient and dependable performance for Novell environments."

The QLA2200 series is based on the QLogic ISP2200A Fibre Channel controller chip. The ISP2200A features an embedded I/O processor, which results in impressive performance and superior efficiency in real world applications. This capability is especially critical in customer applications like OLTP and WEB server and data warehousing.

QLogic controllers maximize system efficiency and scalability by offloading I/O management functions from the CPU to the controller. By using the embedded processor to manage both the I/O activity and the host system interface, QLogic's controllers free the system to perform more user-application work.

QLogic is the unit market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters, according to Dataquest, a Gartner Group Company. Also an innovator in SCSI connectivity solutions and enclosure management products, QLogic was recently added to the Nasdaq 100 Index.

As a member of the FibreAlliance, an open, EMC-sponsored industry coalition driving standards for managing heterogeneous storage networks, QLogic is taking a leadership role to provide customers with fully interoperable storage network management solutions.

About EMC

EMC Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world's technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise storage systems, software, networks and services. The company's products store, retrieve, manage, protect and share information from all major computing environments, including Unix, Windows NT, Linux, mainframe and other platforms. The company has offices worldwide, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. For further information about EMC and its storage solutions, EMC's corporate web site can be accessed at http://www.EMC.com.

About QLogic

A member of the Nasdaq 100 Index, QLogic Corporation is the unit market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and a leading designer and supplier of semiconductor and board-level I/O and enclosure management products targeted at the computer system, storage device and storage subsystem marketplaces. QLogic high-performance controllers are implemented in products from technology leaders such as AMI, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Iwill, Quantum, Raidtec, Siemens, Sun and Unisys. The company's high-performance Fibre Channel and SCSI solutions play a key role in enabling enterprise-level storage area networks (SANs) and the company's enclosure management products monitor and communicate component information that is critical to computer system and storage subsystem reliability and availability. For more information about QLogic and its products, contact QLogic Corp., 26600 Laguna Hills Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656; telephone: 800/662-4471 (sales); 949/389-6000 (corporate); fax: 949/389-6126; home page http://www.qlc.com.

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